Month: February 2018

by Greek Giant According to The Athletic and other sources, Brian Sabean will be more involved in the day-to-day decisions of the Giants. He will be coming in from the cold of Minor League scouting and other Executive VP duties to get his hands in the works regarding the Giants…

by Greek Giant There is nothing I need to say about this game. Decades of frustration ended thanks to Timmy and Edgar Renteria. I remember the game like it was yesterday. When the ball came off Renteria’s bat with two men on and one out in the 7th I wasn’t…

by Dr Lefty Bonus post! I’ll update it as needed. Here’s the link to the schedule on the Giants website. Note that they start doing more night games a couple weeks in. I’ll highlight televised games in bold and night games in italics. All times Pacific (note: Daylight time begins…

by Dr Lefty I went to sleep last night thinking about my blog post. I usually have some kind of concept, and the one I was working on was related to Bernie Miklasz’s hard-hitting piece in The Athletic yesterday on tough questions facing the Cardinals. I was going to riff…

by Greek Giant Word on the street is that Timmy hit 93 MPH on the gun in his tryout before Major League scouts yesterday. I always hated the word “Showcase”. Evidently he is super fit without “an ounce of fat” on him and he is also a bit bulked up,…

by Greek Giant Today is the first day pitchers and catchers have full workouts in Spring Training. Yeay! Johnny Cueto is in town. Kerry Crowley of the Mercury News predicts the Giants opening day roster. Baseball is here! At Fan Fest some players like BCraw, Pence and Cutch were asked…

by Greek Giant There are some interesting names on the list of unsigned free agents still looking for a new team. With Yu Darvish signing with the Cubs and news that Jake Arrieta rejected a huge offer by the Cubs and J. D. Martinez doing the same with an offer…

by Dr Lefty The delicious anticipation starts to build as the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl comes to an end. Football is finally over, almost time for… Then the players roll into town, and we see tidbits from their photo and commercial shoots. Friday is Media Day, so we get…

by Greek Giant It’s a slow baseball news day. We all love Tim Lincecum. Word is that his velocity is up and his team believes he can land a job with a Major League team again: UPDATE: Tim Lincecum will throw for scouts Thursday, February 15th at Driveline Research…

by Greek Giant Barry Bonds was the greatest baseball player I ever saw in my 40 years of watching the great American game. He may have been the greatest ballplayer ever. I would venture to guess a contest between Barry Lamar, Mays, and Cobb would be an interesting skills competition….